Diocese of Zamora
Zamoren(sis) in Aequatoria
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Zamora, Ecuador
Apostolic Vicariate of Zamora en Ecuador, a missionary jurisdiction in the Amazonian Zamora-Chinchipe province erected in 1893 and immediately subject to the Holy See. The vicar apostolic is Bishop Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 February 1991
- Latin
- Zamoren(sis) in Aequatoria
- Annuario code
- 001000469
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 113,000
- Population
- 125,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 90.4%
- Priests
- 28
- Catholics per priest
- 4,036
- Extent
- 10,556 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 11
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés
- Born
- 17 September 1973
- Birthplace
- Gozanamá
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen stands in Zamora, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
A missionary circumscription of the Roman Catholic Church, the Apostolic Vicariate of Zamora en (that is, in) Ecuador (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Zamorensis in Aequatoria) has its cathedral see in the city of Zamora, in the Amazonian province of Zamora-Chinchipe. It is exempt, answering directly to the Holy See and belonging to no ecclesiastical province.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Misión Franciscana, Calle Sevilla de Oro 312 y 24 de Mayo, Zamora [Zamora-Chinchipe], Ecuador
- Telephone and fax
- [07]2605.130
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.